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...personify the harmoniousness and opulence Kazakhstan wants to project. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the presence of Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov. After the 1991 U.S.S.R. breakup, Uzbekistan looked down its nose at Kazakhstan - historically nomadic, steppe-locked, undeveloped - and Karimov claimed the role of regional heavyweight for himself. But here he was, despite his obsession with protocol, choosing his own country's independence day to embark on a state visit to Kazakhstan. It was the visible sign of a new order in the region. "From now on, we're calling the shots in Central Asia - and Karimov came...
...returns in the hobbit books. And at least one Rings denizen - the elf Galadriel - makes a cameo. Some English professors have been frustrated by Tolkien's reputation as a weaver of children's stories, and they hope the new book will bolster their belief that Tolkien is a literary heavyweight worthy of serious academic study. "The perception is that he was just an eccentric don who wrote fantasy," says Alfred K. Siewers, assistant professor of medieval literature at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. But Tolkien was a linguist and a historian who derived much inspiration for his novels from medieval...
Still, there may be opportunity. Dell is wounded, reeling from plummeting profits and a major laptop recall. Amelio's aggressive plan might be what Lenovo needs to become a global PC heavyweight. "Amelio is doing exactly what needs to be done," says Joseph Ho, an analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research in Hong Kong. And if Lenovo gets some breathing room, maybe He, the chief technology officer, can focus on learning how to tell a Tar Heel from a Blue Devil...
...Ec10 lecture on hidden costs and the economic irrationality of individuals. Andrei Shleifer, on the other hand, is infamous for his alleged improprieties in dealings with government contracts in Russia and his close relationship with former University President Lawrence H. Summers. Apart from that, Shleifer is a heavyweight in the world of behavioral finance and much of said portion of the class can be traced directly back to his research. While Laibson’s half of the course is arguably a longer, albeit, more in depth, version of his Ec 10 lecture, its real value emerges in the question...
Cheney is not the first political heavyweight to hold forth at the Harvard Club. According to the club’s website, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, William Taft, and John Foster Dulles have all been visitors...